Biography

At Tulane:
Since 2016

Interests

My primary clinical interests are severe mental illness and risk assessment/violence management and prevention. I employ a trauma-informed, recovery-oriented model of treatment. My teaching focus is forensic psychiatry: the intersection of mental health or development and the law. I perform evaluations of children, adolescents, and adults that are used in legal proceedings. I supervise child and adolescent psychiatry fellows, general psychiatry residents, and forensic fellows in many topics including psychotherapy, consultation-liaison, psychopharmacology, and forensic evaluations.

Publications & Presentations

Sonnier, L. Acute Agitation. In Caring for the Hospitalized Child: A Handbook of Inpatient Pediatrics (In press 2016) American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Hospital Medicine.